Who spends $657.70 on knickknacks at a Cracker Barrel Restaurant? Some lady in West Virginia buying Christmas presents, that’s who. Yes, I too was in a West Virginia Cracker Barrel last week; but, in my defense, Cracker Barrel food is cheap comfort food and it’s really tasty. Their in-restaurant stores, however, baffle me. For those [...]
I was adopted when I was 1 ½ years old. There aren’t many relevant details to tell about the actual adoption right now apart from the fact that I know (now) my biological mom loved me but couldn’t keep me, and my adoptive parents acquired me (and my twin sister) and grew to love [...]
Christie Sims, Emergency Services Dispatcher for Tompkins County New York, has been kind enough to answer some of my questions regarding 911. Since this blog is dedicated to parenting I think there is nothing more relevant to parenting than teaching kids how to handle an emergency. 911 is a number with which every American child should be familiar. But, more than simply having [...]
Today Mely’s inspiration for the coloring sheets were the toys she has sitting on her desk. We have some monkeys, fuzzy pens with cute heads and all the parts to a Matryoshka Doll that my parents gave to my son Alan. As always, click over the image to get the PDF version you can print. [...]
A person I know asked recently which video game would be best for a 4 year old. If he could only have one game for Christmas, which one would he like the most? Which one would maximize the spend? As is always the case, the person who asked that question got a bunch of [...]
This is the Junior Flight Ranger Program booklet that the National Park Service gives to kids who visit Kitty Hawk. It beats an Applebee’s place mat. Click over the image to see the entire booklet in PDF version. Have fun!
We went to Kitty Hawk yesterday to see the field where the Wright brothers made their historic first flights. It’s a national monument. The visitor center contains a 200 seat auditorium with a replica Flyer where a park ranger gives a speech about the Wright brothers. The auditorium wasn’t full during our presentation, but [...]
I’ll bet there aren’t many people who lament the decline of old fashioned log cabins or thatched roofs. Imagine the effort it took to build a log cabin, and imagine the comfort it provided in comparison to today’s suburban housing monstrosities. I took a picture last summer of a little brick house in Utah that [...]
My wife, for some reason explainable only to her, likes renaissance fairs. We go to one every year to eat a turkey leg and participate in all manner of non historical nonsense. If you’ve ever been to one of these fairs, you can sympathize with the tendency I have to dismiss any product or [...]
Holiday gluttony is common. And so is post holiday guilt. My biggest business as a martial arts academy owner was always in January, after everybody had gorged themselves on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years cookies, turkeys, pies, and eggnog and wanted to burn it off in a flurry of kicking and punching. Business would die [...]
Continuing with our last week’s theme of learning English and Spanish, today we have a language lesson with colors. As always, click over the image to get the PDF document you can print. Leave us your requests under the comments sections, and visit old coloring sheets here. Thank you for visiting. Enjoy! [...]
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